We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two … were at the 79th, 91st, and 96th percentiles of baseline savings. Survey data show no clearly discernible intention …-to-treat effects on savings or any downstream outcomes. This suggests that policies merely focused on expanding access to basic …

This paper explores the qualitative and quantitative implications of taxation for growth and savings in three Latin … American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the context of an endogenous growth model where … labor taxes should be lower than actual taxes in Brazil and Chile. However, while sub-optimal taxes seem to imply lower long …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical …

savings. What has made Chile's savings so high? What were some key policies implemented? Did the structural and liberalizing …Some analysts rank Chile as the only Latin American economy that qualifies as a "take-off economy", or development … economy. In a sense, Chile's enduring success and proved insulation from the "Tequila effect" are due to its high national …

This paper constructs time series data on savings per type of agent for Chile during the period 1960-2012. It is found … that the economy's average savings rate increased by 11 percentage points in the period 1985-2012 compared to 1960- 1984 …, with particularly pronounced growth in corporate savings. The evidence suggests that this increase was driven largely by …